This Summoner Is Too Powerful-Chapter 445 - 373: Admit Defeat, Child

[Boom Mushroom!]

The card Li Pu revealed was also a mushroom card.

Its projection was a mushroom man with a mouth extending forward, like a big thick pipe.

This card had done wonders for him before the version update.

After numerous enhancements following the update, it finally presented a brand new look.

[Cannon Mushroom]

Rage, 12 points, B

Atk 10, 100/100

[Mushroom Turret - Passive]: When there's a friendly mushroom revealed in front of Cannon Mushroom, Attack Power +20

[One-shot Cannon -40 Life Points]: Cannon Mushroom's attack power +20 this turn, with Piercing effect

Card Master Teacher's ghostly card deck has a flaw that's hard to call a flaw.

Or put another way, the path to gaining an advantage against this deck is quite clear.

One must bring out cards with ranged attack capabilities.

Because the defensive ability of the three front cards under the effect of [King Tiger Ghostly] is too strong, only by bypassing those three cards protected by the [Ghostly King Support] can more damage be inflicted.

Between defense and attack, Li Pu chose attack first.

"Your judgment is correct, but my card is not bad either."

At this point, Card Master Teacher held his face-down card and then revealed it.

[Ghostly Safe~]

A very ordinary white ghost floated out from the card, with a big red cross on its head.

[Emergency Ghostly]

Whispers, 8 points, A

Atk 0, 100/100, 0/4

[Ghostly Constitution - Passive]: Emergency Ghostly cannot "defend", but damage received -20%

[Specialized Immobilization - Passive]: Emergency Ghostly restores 1 extra energy each turn it stays still

[Emergency Expert -3 Energy]: Emergency Ghostly can activate 40 points of Emergency on a revealed ghost card

Being an A-grade card and a healing card made Li Pu frown deeply.

He understood the concept of [Emergency].

Unlike [Healing], [Emergency] has a high priority, even above control actions, not to mention attack and defense actions.

Its advantage lies in the ability to quickly raise health points before the enemy acts.

But its flaw is it's ineffective on a fully-healed card since it only results in overhealing.

You could say, [Emergency] and [Healing] are both recovery methods, but their pros and cons are exactly reversed.

The good news for Li Pu is that this [Emergency Ghostly] has no energy, and it will take another two turns to use healing, so he still has a chance to launch an attack.

So when the action phase came, both made their choices.

Li Pu had [Cannon Mushroom] lose 40 health to attack, dealing 25 damage to [Sharp Ghostly] and 50 to the card behind it.

[Vine Mushroom] and [Wooden Mushroom] attacked [King Tiger Ghostly], dealing 20 damage.

[Shield Mushroom] chose to consume all energy, activating the [Defense] skill that provides all friendly mushroom cards a 50% damage reduction.

As for Card Master Teacher's side, [Sharp Ghostly] was under the influence of [Entangle], unable to attack.

[Emergency Ghostly] needed to stay still to charge up energy, so no attack.

[King Tiger Ghostly] used its skill to lose 20 health and attack [Wooden Mushroom] and [Vine Mushroom], dealing 15 damage to each.

[Ghostly Little Girl] attacked, dealing 5 damage to [Wooden Mushroom].

Finally, [Wooden Mushroom] healed allied card 10 life points.

After the action phase, the card status was as follows:

Used Points: 45, Remaining Points: 55

[Card 50][Card][Emergency]

[Sharp 25][King Tiger 40-Entangle][Girl]

VS

[Shield 80][Wooden 40][Vine 55]

[Cannon 60][Card][Card]

Used Points: 42, Remaining Points: 58

"You've made a good choice."

"And wisely so, but if it comes to attrition, you can't beat me."

Card Master Teacher didn't feel anything was wrong with this outcome.

In a 9+1 card game, it takes 7 turns just to reveal all the normal cards, and a mere 2 turns can't indicate much.

"..."

Li Pu didn't reply as he didn't have much of an advantage that turn either.

Using a not-so-comprehensive and accurate measure, it was clear.

His side's total damage was 165, while Card Master Teacher's side had 185, a difference of only 20—an unimpressive advantage.

More crucially, [Shield Mushroom] will lack energy to use its skill in the next turn.

The opponent's [Sharp] will break free from control and can penetrate defenses.

The only consolation is that [King Tiger Ghostly] can't attack in the next turn.

So as the action phase ended, the substitution phase began.

During the substitution phase, Li Pu spent some time deliberating.

Card Master Teacher also made some moves on his side.

First, he substituted the card with only 50 health left for a 1-point value card.

After the version update, the newly added substitution phase greatly weakened the [Piercing] effect of cards like [Cannon Mushroom].

The specific reason being instances like the above.

After painstakingly firing two shots, ending up only removing a 1-point discarded card is a bit of a loss.

So, unless it's a direct knockout, prematurely attacking a face-down card can lead to similar situations.